RATATOSKR

[soulping]

[ The Traveler steps in front of all of you, her arms raised dramatically! ]

Today, we take the first step of a very, very long journey together! This dream belongs to a young man, a criminal and his gang who on an otherwise normal heist has gotten in way over his head! Normally, this would be a nightmare, full of blood and death and abject horror!

Fortunately, I have taken the liberty of altering this dream so that it is completely safe and above all, fun! It would not do to have your first foray into the world of unreality to be so unwelcoming! The goal of this game is to survive, reach the end, and solve the mystery...

The mystery of the Train Tracker!

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[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[A FUN CRIME THING, YOU SAY?]

A mystery, huh? Sounds awesome.

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

[ eee you're still doing the thing ]

It is!

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[:)]

Excellent! So, is it a roleplay? Do I get a role, or do I just get to decide?

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

It is an adventure. You are just a passenger.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Always love an adventure. Liking that role, allows for all sorts of possibilities.

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

Indeed!

Just speak with the conductor to get started.

[ There's a young, red-haired frumpy looking conductor standing by Epona's train. ]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Did you mean Ratatoskr instead of Epona?]

[I'm sure an immortal criminal will have lovely relationships with this young man.]

Righty-o! [Salutes and heading over to the conductor.] Good afternoon!

[soulping]

[ i meant get punched in the face ]

[ He bows slightly, smiling. ]

Afternoon! Are you ready to embark?

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[So mean![

[Should I bow back? Yes, I think I should, so I will.]

[What is curtesying.]

I do believe I am!

[soulping]

[ A young conductor ushers you aboard, his frumpy red hair gleaming beneath his hat.

You're in the dinner car of your team's train, where some very clearly high-class people are mingling...for the most part. There's some people up at the bar that you can tell are LESS THAN SCRUPULOUS. Also, one of them is apparently a cowboy? It's 1931, for godssakes.

The cowboy appears to be telling the young nervous man a story. Something about a TRAIL TRACKER, that appears on trains to murder everyone, at which point the train vanishes...obviously a urban legend, but the nervous man proceeds to FLIP THE FUCK OUT ABOUT IT, and runs off out of the car, insisting that he needs to find the young conductor to warn him that everyone on the train is going to die.

The moment he vanishes, you hear the sound of a pistol firing, and people start to panic. Welp.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE EAST.

> ]

[soulping]

[Advance to CAR 1. ]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Such pretty red hair, really.]

[Ooooo, what a styling young man. Approached the CLEARLY LEGIT PEOPLE by the bar, listening to the story. My, my, how grim! Would it kill people to have more cheerful stories, JEEZE.]

[Poor guy is really far too tense though.]

[Is about to talk to cowboy man, but then there's pistols?! I know a gun when I hear one!]

[Which way is the pistol being fired?]

[soulping]

[ East! ]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[HEADING EAST.]

[soulping]

[ As you leave the dinner car, you see a group of people in black suits, carrying cases for musical instruments, running into it. The nervous man seems to have stopped for a second, watching them as they file in, wondering what the christ they're doing when someone just fired a gun.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE WEST, EAST, and NORTH.

> ]

[soulping]

[ Advance to CAR 2. ]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Hey, nervous dude, head back. Get the people in that car as far back as possible and barricade the place. No reason to let people with guns run around willy nilly!

[soulping]

What?! No, you gotta head back! Everyone on this train's in great danger, and I gotta tell the conductor!

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I'll tell the conductor. Train tracker, right?

[soulping]

Yeah, but you should just stay in the dining car! It's safer th --

[ wait no that's the sound of MACHINE GUNS coming from the dining car. The nervous man appears to be CRYING.

He then turns and runs EAST. ]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Oh shit.]

[Looking between the two directions and..]

[Fuck, okay, EAST. I can't take machine guns like this, but maybe I can get that PISTOL and come back later.]

CAR 3

[soulping]

[ As you enter this car, you hear MACHINE GUNS firing back from where you came. There's nothing in here but a few crates, which if you wanted you could probably climb up to the HATCH on the roof.

SUDDENLY, a man in a white suit carrying a pistol walks in. The nervous man cries.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE EAST, WEST and UP.

> ]

[soulping]

[Advance to CAR 3. ]

Re: CAR 3

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Hello pistol.]

[ABSCOND TO BEHIND THE CRATES.]

[Can I use them as cover to get behind the man in a white suit?]

Re: CAR 3

[soulping]

[ You can! He fires a shot that impacts against the crate, but now he's walking towards you... ]